Tag Archives: languages and culture

Les Faux-amis… souvent des imbroglios!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: October 6, 2009

So far, this week has been quiet… I mean… no bad news and no panic!… Yet I do know it will not last very long… Denise went for her oral interaction test yesterday morning and she wrote that it went well… Now, I am waiting for both Melody and Denise’s results… I doubt I will [...]

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An Aberration?… Je ne vous le fais pas dire!!!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: June 3, 2009

Today I had planned to publish another «jeu linguistique», yet something happened and I cannot wait until the weekend to share this story with you… Actually this story is almost unbelievable! Useless to say that it gives another dimension to the SLE testing process within the Public Service of Canada. Fasten your seat belts because [...]

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Methods of Learning French…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: March 13, 2009

Today calls for celebration!… I wrote 100 posts (including this one) over the last six months!… Sometimes I wonder where I did find the time to actually achieve that! Well… apparently I did because the figures are right before my very eyes. Though I wonder if I had been that prolific without my students’ stories [...]

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